姑息养奸 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 姑息養奸 gūxīyǎngjiān ㄍㄨ ㄒㄧ ㄧㄤˇ ㄐㄧㄢ to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom) spare the rod and spoil the child Character by character 姑(gū)paternal aunt 息(xī)breath 养(yǎng)raise 奸(jiān)wicked A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0